The Arizona champion., 1887-06-18
WEEKLY CHAMPION,
 SATURDAY, JUNE IS, 1887.
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

san Dlego mas now 2,4H sChoo children.
 The public debt of Mexico is now SI57,o1o, 900.
 Jay Gould is said to be very sick a, Fortress Monroe.
 "Bird of Freedom" won the Ascoi cup on Tuesday.
 James G. Blaine and his family Jeff New York for Europe last week.
 A convention of machinery con. { structors is being held at Pittsburg,
 There is talk about an extra sessior of congress, to convene in Qbtober
 The president has returned, from his fishing excursion, to the White House,
 The Western Union telegraph of, flee at Pittsburgh has been destroyed by fire.
 William E. Sheridan, the American tragedian, died suddenly on May 18th in Sydney, Australia.
 If there are any good Indians out. side of graveyards, they do not live in Arizona.
 The New York theatres are using cooling machines for their perspirins audiences
 They are making 2Ia, 1000 bricks a day in Los Angeles, at least so says the Times of that city.
 It is rumored that Secretary Lamar will be appointed to the vacant place on the supreme bench,
 They are putting tramps on the chain gang at Riverside and making them work to clean up the streets.
 A famine is imminent in Persia on account of the extreme droulh. The people are emigrating to the Caspian territory.
 The typographical union at their convention now in session at Buffalo, have admitted women to the organi. Fation to have equal pay for full work.
 New York has another murder mys- tery, man named Mathew NoTWood was, killed and thrown from the roof cf a tenement house into an alley ray.
 The Ek Paso Inter-Republics re. ports trouble in the.city of Chihuahua resulting from the election. The peoples ticket was carried by large majority.
 Senator Ingalls, h having got tired of twisting the tail of the British lion is now lecturlng against woman suff. rage. Ingalls, must talk or he would explode.
 The Beecher monument committee have decided to erect the statue ta the great preacher in Brooklyn City Hall square, The sum needed is S3s,- 900; two-thirds of which has been ob, tained.
 Bill, Johnson, by profession stage robber, made the following doIeful complaint: "Stage after stage have held up without getting a nickle, and 1t seems as though all the money in the hands of the bankers, the railroad managers or the express companies,
 When John Swinton began the la- bor Sight, he lived in brown stone front and had s35 ,ooo in U. s. bonds saved by hard newspaper work He is now living on the top floor of a tene- ment house in Brooklyn, all his prop erty gone, but he IS said to be as cheerful as ever.
 Senator Stuart, of Nevada says the inter state law was never intended to deprive congressman of their passes. he says every congressman should not only be provided with free passes but be compelled to travel at least 5000 miles year in pursuit of information concerning the country. During the first month of the no license law in Greenfield, Mass. over I,6oo sales oi liquor were made for medicinal purposes, in the four drug stores of the town. as the pre- scriptions are mostly pint bottles of whlskey II is only fair to infer that there has been a great deal of sick ness in Greenfield. The settlers on the Maxwell grant | threaten to resist the decree of the | United States court. It IS certainly | hard that after a man has spent years in cultlvating farm and building of home for himself and family that he should have to give it all mp with. out a cent of recompense, but the highest tribunal of the land las de. cidrd it so, there is no appeal and Urcle Sans laws must be obeyed.
 A new machine which IS called 'whizzer" has been invented for dry ing clothes m laundries. It makes Icoo revolutions a minute and dries the clothes very rapidly. one of these days the "whlzzer will be introduced into editorial rooms, and the bore who persists Tn thinking that news paper office is loafIng place where he can bore you to death with his talk, will be invited to step into the "whizzer" and "dry up."
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